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Why You Can’t “Just Relax” (And How to Return to Steady). Get the free guide with a practical framework to help you recognize your stress loop and return to steady sooner.

We’re in the eleventh month of the craziest year ever, entering a traditional time of thanks-giving. In some ways, giving ‘thanks’ seems counter-intuitive. With the destruction of life-as-we-knew it and over one million deaths globally at the time of this writing, there seems little to be grateful for. Or is there?

If you’re like everyone else on the planet, you have a critic who lives inside you. And it never stops talking. Sometimes your critic is a perfectionist. Sometimes it’s a tyrant. Regardless of how it shows up, that critical voice does everything in its power to hold you back, keep you down, and make you feel like you’re not enough...

the craziness, violence, and chaotic uncertainty we’re experiencing is no laughing matter. But, maybe the light-heartedness of their music is something we can use. As a musician-composer, I see this music-lyric pairing as a message of hope: an admonition to not get bogged down in life’s absurdities...